On this below-freezing day here on the West Coast it's a perfect day to finish off some stoneware pots and think about posting some photos of my recent glaze firing of earthenware. Just over a week ago just two Raiders, Mina and Michelle, joined me for a work day. As it turned out their few plates just helped me to fill my kiln for a…
My recent two firings didn't contain any of my own work. I finally decided to pay attention to the advice from 'Totally Ceramics' and my pottery neighbour Ysabella and used a commercial glaze. I had been trying to save electricity by firing my red earthenware pots in the same firings as the plates made with Wonder White earthenware but it seems I need to fire…
What an unusual week it's been here in BC's Lower Mainland. We're told that the snowfall is the first for over 1,000 days so we got dumped on to make up for two mild winters. But I was able to do a bisque, then glaze and fire the kiln again without the power going out. Yesterday I emptied the kiln after shovelling the walkways yet…
Today 5 Vancouver artists came here for the day to paint plates and platters I'd made for them. Paul Mathieu brought along two platters he'd painted last time to show us how they have been finished with outlines in silver lustre. I'll just show those two first and make a second blog of photos of artists painting next. Paul had painted bone dry plates with…